Star! [Bonus Tracks] (1993)

About this title: Star!, a film biography of the British actress/singer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), must have seemed like an excellent vehicle for Julie Andrews when it went into production in 1967 for a fall 1968 release. Andrews was, after all, the top female film star of the day, with a string of movie musical hits including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music behind her, and she was steeped in the vaudeville/music hall tradition from which Lawrence had emerged. But the project was inherently less likely to be accepted by a mass audience than Andrews' earlier triumphs, since it would not appeal to ... read more

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